shouting match

when cell phones were first invented, their sound quality was poor, the microphones were tinny, and their connections so intermittent that users on both ends of a conversation found themselves plugging one ear and just shouting into the handset in order for their points to be communicated.

now we have cell phones that present the subtle crescendos and key changes in classical music, are used to record concerts, and have reliable enough connections to set a clock to. so of course, we as humans, never satisfied with communicating courteously, simply crank up the handsfree, put the cell phone six feet away, and shout at it.

No, i really Don't want to be subjected to both ends of your conversation on Suzy's biopsy results from fifty feet away, up a staircase, and behind two closed doors. Please allow me to not hear you.